The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. “We looked at their experiences and not just their demographic background—the more functional aspect of diversity.

Diversity 94

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 94

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture. This is quite understandable.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Authority on new technology and communication. World authority on project management. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches. 100 COACHES.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers?

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The key to building predictive models is knowing what you want to predict and collecting large and diverse data sets that may enable you to do so. Harry Haysom/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. paul Garbett for HBR.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I found myself reflecting on this recently while speaking with two business leaders in one of the world’s great pharmaceutical companies. Strength in Diverse, Collaborative Teams. These firms lacked diverse, highly collaborative leadership teams. Leadership Managing uncertainty'

Drucker 8

Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. Victor Albrow/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The first part of the conference's message, that the infrastructure of the continent is greatly wanting, was a topic of many panels, including a pair of engaging ones on technology, but it was brought home most vividly in another context, by Thierry Tanoh , a vice president at the International Finance Corp. Do you want to jump in yourself?".

Conference 12

Conference Pharmaceuticals Politics Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Talent Management. ” Other talent management concerns that were mentioned once include: motivating people through hard times, retention and development, and managing diversity and cultural differences. As a pharmaceutical company, we obviously were part of that whole ecosystem.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. For example, a study of a multinational pharmaceutical company revealed that leaders in its U.S. Leadership & Managing people Technology Managing yourself'

Tools 8

Tools CEO Mezzanine Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big. We’re living through an era of remarkable U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

We have fantastic opportunities to use technology to tear down barriers between people instead of erecting them. If you have applied for a job lately, perhaps you’ve seen … Stock photo images of perfectly diverse people jumping for joy instead of real faces and real smiles in a real workplace.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Pharmaceuticals PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Over the past 20 years, information technology and digital channels have changed the way consumers shop for products ranging from cars to homes to electronics. From the buyer’s perspective, information technology and digital channels provide access to information and enable self-sufficiency. Sellers must respond. Systems (e.g.,

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

All too soon, however, the demands of managing the near-term business take over. Lafley became the CEO of Procter & Gamble, he saw that the company's current expansion strategy, which had put it in markets as diverse as pharmaceuticals and snack foods, would continue to erode value.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. Why does all this matter?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8